Congresses

ACPM Conference History and Leadershipǂ

	Date	Location	Chairman(s)
1st	May 19-20, 1984	Tokyo, Japan	Yujiro Ikemi
2nd	Nov 12-15, 1986	New Delhi, India	A. N. Singh
3rd	Nov 25-27, 1988	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	M. Mahadevan
4th	Apr 20-21, 1990	Sendai, Japan	Jinichi Suzuki
5th	Sep 4-6, 1992	Taipei, Taiwan	Hsien Rin
6th	Jun 5-6, 1994	Fukuoka, Japan	Chiharu Kubo
7th	Sep 5-7, 1996	Dalian, China	Zengyuan Liu
8th	Oct 30, 1998	Seoul, South Korea	Byung Il Min
9th	Sep 29-30, 2000	Tokyo, Japan	Sueharu Tsutsui
10th	Sep 28-29, 2002	Taipei, Taiwan	Ming-Been Lee
11th	Oct 23-24, 2004	Okinawa, Japan	Hiroshi Ishizu
12th	Nov 24-25, 2006	Melbourne, Australia	Lorraine Dennerstein
13th	Aug 31 – Sep 2, 2008	Seoul, South Korea	Bong Yul Huh, Kyung Bong Koh
14th	Sep 10-12, 2010	Beijing, China	Zhifu Zhao
15th	Aug 24-26, 2012	Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia	Tserekhuugyin Lkhagvasuren
16th	Aug 22-23, 2014	Jakarta, Indonesia	Endjad Mudjaddid
17th	Aug 20-21, 2016	Fukuoka, Japan	Nobuyuki Sudo
18th	Aug 24-26, 2018	Seoul, South Korea	Byung Sung Kim
19th§	Aug 23-24, 2022	Irkutsk, Russia	Sobennikov Vasilii

ǂThe first eight conferences were held as the Asian Chapter of the International Society of Psychosomatic Medicine (ICPM). At the 9th conference, it was decided to change the name to the Asian College of Psychosomatic Medicine (ACPM).
§Although the conference was initially scheduled for 2020, it was postponed to 2022 and conducted online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.